Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-02-12

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The Waseca district Good Templars elected
officers on the 1st inst.
The Scotchmen Of Fergus Falls have organ
lied a st. Andrews society.
The Red Wing Industrial association held
it's annual election on the LIST inst.
The city co neil OF Nankato has decided
upon q thorough revision of the city char
ter.
The high license bill before the Legislature
received the highest approval Of Northdeld
citizens.
Red Wing has a 500, 900 mortgage suit
that will 90 to the supreme court for fnal de-
cision.
Tho Younger brothers in the penitentiary
at Saltwater wore visited by a sister re-
Gently.
The Catholic temperance society Of the state
are asking for high license from the legisla-
ture.
Albert Lea, after a short season OF darkness,
has again ordered the electric lamps to be
lighted.
1t is reported that the West hotel at Min
neapolis is not a paying institution and has
lost money.
Otter Tail county produced eight pair of
twins, one triplet, and four ~illegitimate chill
dlen In 1856.
Anna Lovcnson, aged forty-hve, committed
suicide In the town Of Vassa. 1t is thought
she was deranged.
A bill has been introduced IN the council at
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and form a fourth ward.
A number of solid business men Of Reeds
Landing have organized a lime kiln company
with a capital OF 10000.
NJ. s. Shern, state Sunday school mission
airy, is in Fergus Falls 70 form an Otter Tail
county Sunday school association.
The tender age OF a would-be bride from
Rice county caused the clerk at Mankato to
refuse a certiiicate-wirhout the pas consent.
j. T.. Laurence, OF Mortified, has received
the appointment Of inspector OF the patri-
archal circle, with the rank of brigadier gen
eral.
G. l.. Saylor, a drug merchant OF Lake City,
and Miss Sarah Collins, OF Benson, Swift
county, were married at De Graf on the 26th
ult.
BY petition the legislature will be asked to
pass an enabling act to permit the city of
Waseca to issue bonds for IS. 900 to purchase
a park.
The Owatonna high school has an electric
battery which runs a moter and one Of Edi-
sons incandescent lights. The whole outfit
is used in the laboratory.
The new charter that is proposed for WI
nona provides for biennial elections, extends
the terms OF aldermen TO four years and
makes the liquor license $500.
The county clerks report for 1886 shows
lip births in Winona county, $40 males
and $40 females. OF these, 36S males and 36l
females were in the city of Wiaona.
Battle Lake is determined to prevent the
sale Of liquors in the village. 4 druggist
named Hanson was arrested on the 3lst ult.
There are no licensed saloons n.the village.
Hon. w. II. Officer died at his home at Aus
tin quite suddenly on the 3lst ult. He was a
hrother-in-law Of GOV. Rusk, of Wisconsin,
and served two terms In the state senate from
Mower county.
The frozen body OF q new born male child
was found in a box near the cattle yards at
Pernah, on the Goth ult. The child evidently
had been carelessly deposited after birth. No
clue to the guilty parties.
Winona Is a healthy town. During the
year 1856 the total number Of births was 729
and deaths 203. In the county during the
same period there were Liz births and $50
deaths.
A postponement was ordered by Justice
Hayes of Hastings on the lst inst. in the case
OF the st. Paul Union Stock Yards company
VS.. the county commissioners, appeal on a
road matter until the 23d inst.
The water power company OF St. Cloud has
plated its land along the canal so as to give
sixteen mill sites, 57xl65 feet In size, each lot
having a street on two sides Of it. A secon-
Diary canal, forty feet wide, will be built.
Winona Is all torn to pieces over the sur
reptitlous disappearance Of its new city char
ter, and 1t is intimated the liquor men are
at the bottom of the mystery, as they are
opposed to certain provisions contained 10
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~. kSlluLb, vi Al I'LL, oAliohtN ~PHAsJ'
received a blow from an axe in the calf Of the
leg and nearly died from the loss OF blood be-
fore assistance could be obtained. While his
brother was telling a tree he accidently got In
the way Of the axe.
Mayor Carney Of Mankato, has received
from The Minneapolis treasurer OF the Sank
Rapids relief fund, a check for Sl05, which is
refunded to the city as unused. The city APP
propriated $500, of which 81 per cent. re-
NAMED muse and therefore returned.
The Maplewood park association, through
the secretary, Rev. Fl. c. jennings, has just
added another attraction for the coming sum
mcr assembly at Waseca. The famous Schu-
bert male quartette, said to be the finest in
the world, has been positively engaged.
Brainerd is troubled with a f~actional distur-
bante concerning the daming Of the Mississ-
ippi by a water power company. A mass
meeting OF citizens on the 3lst ult. adopted a
set Of resolutions Of condemnation
of the obstructionists. This is believed TO be
a final settler on the opposition OF the enter
prise.